Gotcha day!

Today, we met our third daughter, Rachael Anne YuTing Houser. This was a rollercoaster of a day, and was fun, exhausting, and overwhelming. After breakfast, where we had pig ear, black conjee and cold squid for the first time, we took a sweltering walk in the park and watched women exercising with a fan dance. On the way back from the park, we saw several women walking into the hotel with babies in their arms. After several seconds, it occurred to us that 10 women entering the hotel, each with a baby, just 20 minutes before we were to get our babies, meant that one of them was likely our little Yu Ting! (Now that we've seen the pictures, we know one of them was, so it was the first moment we saw our child.) We didn't study the babies too closely, as we knew we would likely pick her out, and the thought of just leaving her in the lobby would have been too much. We made a quick change, and dashed off to the 26th floor lounge, where we spent several hours, on-and-off with the babies, local officials, caregivers, notaries and our guides. Rachael made an absolute fuss when she had to leave her caregiver, and her passport picture (taken 10 minutes after we got her) captured one of the few seconds she didn't cry for the first hour. Once we took her to our hotel room, changed her diaper, got her some food and a nap, she was much better. We took a shopping trip mid-day, and got several supplies like bottled water, bananas, yogurt (both a big hit with Rachael), diapers and a few containers of the same formula she had been using. By the way, golf shirts and dress shirts at the market were 5 Yuan, which is about $0.61. After applying for her passport at the police station, Daddy gave Rachael a bath, and then we went to dinner, then swiftly to bed. What a day!